Child’s Narrow Escape
Lorry Lands Against House Bedroom Window Smashed [Special to “Tribune”] Auckland, Jan. 5. While lying asleep in her bed at g Karaka street, •Newton, a little girl of three, Kathleen Freestone, had a narrow escape from death. A half-ton motor truck crashed through the fence and fell 15 feet, landing against the house. Fragments of glass from the window fell on the child, who was on the bed inside the room against which the truck landed. The truck, the property of the Polar Ice Cream Company, was unattended at the time and apparently the brakes had refused to hold the vehicle, which ran down the incline before breaking through the fence. Mr. Freestone and his wife were at breakfast when the accident occurred. Their first thoughts were for their child and they rushed to see if she were hurt. The little girl had been wakened by the crash but except for a fright she was unhurt.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 20, 5 January 1928, Page 8
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